A bomb blast at a religious school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday killed at least seven people and wounded dozens.
"Unknown people planted explosives in a plastic bag," said a police officer in the northwestern city.
A spokesman for the city's Lady Reading Hospital said it had received seven dead and 70 wounded, many with burns.
The school is largely for adult students and many were studying when the blast happened, said resident Abdul Rahim.
Peshawar, near the border with Afghanistan, has long been plagued by violence.
Though the number of incidents in the city, and in Pakistan in general, had fallen over recent years, there has been an increase this year in attacks on the security forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, of which Peshawar is capital.
Some of the attacks have been claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.
The World Court has unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the enclave's Palestinian population and halt spreading famine.
Russian missile and drone attacks hit thermal and hydro power plants in central and western Ukraine, power grid operator Ukrenergo said on Friday, the latest assault on the already damaged power infrastructure.
A bus crash in South Africa's northern province of Limpopo resulted in 45 deaths and one serious injury, the country's Department of Transport said on Thursday.
Spanish coastguards rescued 124 migrants, including young children and a person needing a wheelchair, from two wooden boats in the seas off the Canary Islands on Thursday.
Twelve people drowned trying to reach aid dropped by plane off a Gaza beach, Palestinian health authorities said, amid growing fears of famine nearly six months into Israel's military campaign.
An Indian court extended the custody of opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal until April 1 on Thursday in a graft case related to the national capital territory's liquor policy, local media said.
Divers on Wednesday recovered the remains of two of the six workers missing since they were tossed into Baltimore Harbor from a highway bridge that collapsed into shipping lanes when a faltering cargo freighter rammed into the structure, officials said on Wednesday.
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